You know, I couldn't stand the bits of the show that weren't movie commentary... I just fast-forwarded through them. I was especially embarrassed for the mad-scientist guy in the movie, his schtick was terribly unfunny.

I got this e-mail from someone I guess I don't know, but they must have gotten my e-mail from some MST3K fanbook. It's a great e-mail so I thought I'd put it up.

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Drippy Taco,

We just had our 2nd Candian Turkey Day Marathon here (Thanksgiving was October 8th here) and spent the entire day watching MST3K. We started with some host segments then Mitchell and The Brain That Wouldn't Die after that was Host Segments and finally MST3K Scrapbook.

A good time was had by all.

Of course, we will observe "traditional" Turkey Day when it comes in November.

During these hard times it's nice to have something comforting like MST3K to fall back on for a brief diversion from the madness in the world.

Crow: Great news, Mike! Through the magic of the Hexfield Viewscreen, I've got an expert to clarify some of the questions raised by today's movie. Thanks to me, digging into your wallet, I have been able to raise some money to bring up our distinguished Russian poet, author and professor.

Mike: Pushkin?

Tom: Solzhenitzen?

Crow: Yakov Smirnoff! (Hexfield opens to reveal Yakov. ) Mr. Smirnoff, thank you for taking time through your busy schedule to answer some of our questions.

Yakov: No problem.

Crow: Now, Mr. Smirnoff, let me cite Joseph Campbell who says each culture establishes archetypes which embody that particular culture. How does that apply to the film "Jack Frost"?

Yakov: Well see, in your country you wait in line at bank. In our country we wait in line for bread.

Crow: Oh, well how does that relate to the distinguishment of Russo-Finnish times?

Yakov: Well see, in your country the men shave. In our country, we wish the women would shave.

Crow: Well, uh, naturally we speak that political structure that suppressed such culural expression, right?

Yakov: Well see, in your country you watch movie "The Rock." In our country, we break rock in Gulag.

MST3K CONTINUES FOR ANOTHER YEAR!We are happy to report that Best Brains, Inc. has extended its contract with the Sci-fi Channel, which means that repeats of the show will continue through at least January 31, 2003.

Tom: All Right, music maestro, please. (Joel starts the blender while Tom & Crow mutter.) Now, pour it into giant plastic tulip glass and garnish with a wind-up shrew.

Joel: Say This looks pretty good can I have a taste?

Tom: Be my guest! (Joel takes a straw and takes a taste and collapses in a sugar shock.)(cut)

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Crow: Is the first stage of grief pure unbridled joy?

Crow: the Fifth Element so this is a movie about Boron? Tom: I don't know I only check that chart perioticly

Crow: What's the point of a helmet in skydiving, in case you land on your head?

Tom Servo: Emby Mellay? That's not a name, it's a bad Scrabble hand!

Crow: I want to hurt this movie, but I can never hurt it like it hurt me.

Tom Servo: You know, just because you CAN edit doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Crow: (responding to what he wants for Christmas) I want to control who lives and who dies!

Tom Servo: Uh-oh. Hilarity, guys. Not since the pie-fight scene in "The Great Race"...Crow: Not since the mudslide scene in "McClintock"...Joel: Not since the wagon race scene in "The Hallelujah Trail"...Crow: Not since the chess-playing scene in "The Seventh Seal"...Tom Servo: Not since the orgy scene in "Caligula"...Joel: Huh?Crow: What?Tom Servo: Um... well, hilarity, anyway.

Wow, Binder you're my hero. Back when the gang had their TimmyBigHands site up, I looked up their registration information at networksolutions.com and found Mike Nelson's home address. I've always wanted to stalk him, but I'm too lazy/poor to go to Minnesota.

But what do you mean when you say your dad met the white bearded guy who introduced some of the shows? That was Mike Nelson, in heavy makeup.

LOL Sorry, I meant to say he met the producer. I guess my dad thought that was him (him and I didn't see the episodes with Mike in the make-up) so he assumed that it was the guy he knew. I've only seen the Sci-Fi episodes and none of the Comedy Central ones.

I used to watch it, but I quit after Joel left. It just wasn't the same.

My favorite line was:Joel: What to you want for Christmas, Crow?Crow: I want to decide who lives and who dies!Joel: Oh, I don't know...

Back in college, Comedy Central would send some people down once a year and they'd show an episode of it in one of the auditoriums in the Union. The first 40 or so to get in got cool stuff. I've still got my Comedy Central T-Shirt.

Renewal is good, but the bad news is that the collection of airable episodes is ever-shrinking. The rights to many of the films, even those in the Sci-Fi Channel seasons, have reverted back to the original holders--and while nobody in their right mind wants the rights to feculent trash like Parts: The Clonus Horror and The Screaming Skull back, Sci-Fi won't be running the MST3K version of Universal's Revenge of the Creature or The Leech Woman unless they get some money to burn. Like BestBrains sez, keep trading them tapes.

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